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Elizabeth A. Fenn

Biography

Elizabeth A. Fenn

Elizabeth A. Fenn teaches history at George Washington University. The author of NATIVES AND NEWCOMERS, she lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

Elizabeth A. Fenn

Books by Elizabeth A. Fenn

by Elizabeth A. Fenn - History, Nonfiction

ENCOUNTERS AT THE HEART OF THE WORLD concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology and nutritional science, offering us a new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past.